Winner of the Templar Straid Collection Award 2024
Tim Dwyer was raised in Brooklyn, and lives in Bangor, Northern Ireland. Accepting The Call, his debut collection reflects on a life lived in a fragmented world, a profound longing and a sense of location and dual identity. The poet’s diaspora inhabits two continents; growing up in New York in an immigrant family, psychological work in prisons, life with cancer, and his reverse migration to Ireland. Tim’s poems appear in Irish, UK and international journals. His previous chapbook is Smithy of Our Longings (2015, Lapwing).
Tim Dwyer’s poems open into immediate verse: realised chronicles of lived experience set at street level, or as the poet puts it: ‘we have two lives: / one we learn from, / one we live’ – Patrick Deeley, Keepsake
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